Dominican Republic – Educator Program

Experience the Birthplace of the Americas and Confront the Legacy of Slavery

Educator Expedition of Language, Culture, History and Leadership March 19-26, 2017

In collaboration with UNIBE and numerous local partners, GYLI is offering a Teacher/Educator Expedition to the Dominican Republic in March, 2017. This program will allow educators to see, learn, serve, and participate, then make plans to bring the learning back to their classrooms and communities.

Who Should Attend?

Pre-service Teachers, k-12 teachers, and school administrators interested in 21st Century teaching and learning, global education, multi-culturalism, history, culture, language, and bringing the world to your classroom. We expect educators from a wide variety of schools: public, private, independent, charter schools, boarding and day schools.

Small scale projects to promote environmental sustainability on school campuses

Role of Women in Dominican Republic and Latin America. Read a recent Gallup Survey HERE

Learning Outcomes

Participants will increase your awareness and understanding and ability to:

Teach about Colonial Americas and the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade

Develop project based learning (PBL) tasks that build competency in the 4 domains as established by the Asia Society: investigate the world, recognize and weigh perspectives, communicate ideas, and take action

Design and present a Leader Learning Plan (LLP)—the GYLI process that guides the transfer of a powerful global experience back to the participant’s home school and community

Develop and improve Spanish language speaking, listening and comprehension skills by interacting daily with Spanish language speakers (for those interested). The program is presented in both Spanish and English–so language will not be a barrier.